New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESO’s Very Large Telescope provide evidence that outbursts from supermassive black holes can help...
Early galaxies are dominated by bright clumps, which are larger and more massive than in the local Universe. The star formation activity is strongly influenced...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the intermediate spiral galaxy Messier 90.
This Hubble image...
Large amounts of stars are being born at the center of NGC 4383, a peculiar galaxy located 74 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices....
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope have found the remnants of 106 galaxies as they transition into ultra-compact dwarf galaxies.
Strongly nucleated...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 4654.
This Hubble image...
Using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, astronomers have captured a stunning image...
Astronomers have spotted five blue stellar systems — which they say appear through a telescope as blue blobs and are about the size of dwarf galaxies...
A team of astrophysicists from the United States and Korea has created a new dark-matter distribution map using a neural network-based deep learning method...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the nearly edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5037.
This Hubble image shows NGC 5037, a spiral galaxy...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the central region of NGC 4535.
This Hubble image...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of a spiral galaxy called NGC 4651.
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4651....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a spectacularly detailed image of a galaxy called NGC 4380.
This Hubble image reveals a detailed view...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy Messier 86, which is found in the constellation of Virgo.
This Hubble image shows...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of an elliptical galaxy called Messier 59.
This Hubble image shows the elliptical...
NASA has released a beautiful image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy Messier 90.
This Hubble image shows the spectacular...
In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astronomers used the legendary telescope to take a...
An international team of astronomers and astrophysicists, led by University of Utah, has detected supermassive black holes in two ultra-compact dwarf galaxies:...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy NGC 4424, which is found in the constellation of Virgo.
In this Hubble image the...
This image snapped by ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), a 3.58-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the edge-on spiral galaxy...